AP Source: Gitmo 9/11 suspects to NY for trial

New York Post ^ | 11/13/09 | Devlin Barret (AP)

[smokeyb]

WASHINGTON (AP) -- Self-proclaimed Sept. 11 mastermind Khalid Sheikh Mohammed and four other Guantanamo Bay detainees will be sent to New York to face trial in a civilian federal court, an Obama administration official said Friday.

[smokeyb]

Here we go!

[ScottinVA]

So when AG Holder intercedes and drops the case against KSM, he’ll be released with million$ in retributions? I would put NOTHING past this regime.

[smokeyb]

Mighty scary, isn’t it? I guess this is how he is going to close Gitmo.

[The Pack Knight]

For all their bellyaching for a civilian trial, watch the defense immediately move to dismiss for lack of jurisdiction and to transfer the trial to a new venue for prejudice.

[Loyal Buckeye]

I knew there was a reason that the Feds moved to take over the mosques and the ‘skyscraper’ yesterday. Showing their strength yesterday to offset their stupidity today — totally politically motivated.

[only1percent]

KSM would move to change venue only if he wants to die.

Holder has chosen (whether or not this was his purpose) the single jurisdiction in the country least likely to impose the death penalty.

Interestingly, while I think it would be politically impossible for Holder not to seek the death penalty, that is going to create a real issue on appeal for KSM if he is convicted -- and whether or not he actually is given the death penalty. The percentage of SDNY residents who oppose the death penalty is so high that a reasonable argument can be made that merely selecting a "death-qualified" jury creates a biased panel.

[doug from upland]

And the claim will be that waterboarding is torture and it violated his civil rights.

It only takes one sympathetic Muzzie juror to hang the jury. What is to stop terrorists here from terrorizing the families of the jury or witnesses?

[The Pack Knight]

There are other liberal, anti-death-penalty districts out there. There aren’t any other districts, however, where the defendants slaughtered 3000 people.

I think they’d rather not have a New York jury.

[The Pack Knight]

Well, I think their argument is going to be that they can’t get a fair trial in the city that took the brunt of 9/11.

[doug from upland]

And I believe they will be successful in moving it. How about Detroit? That jury pool would work nicely for the terrorist.

[The Pack Knight]

Yeah, and there’s certainly plenty of potential jurors with nothing better to do in Detroit. Or they could go to Northern California, where 9/11 is ancient history that happened in another country.

[doug from upland]

If I were defense counsel, I would want it moved to Detroit, Seattle, Santa Monica, or San Francisco.

[D-fendr]

Wasn’t MIrandized, was waterboarded.

Case dismissed.

Major fail.